Ramses Shaffy
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Biography: Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009) was a Dutch actor and singer. Born near Paris, his Egyptian diplomat father and Polish noble mother separated before he was born and he was adopted by a Dutch family at a young age. He became popular during the 1960s and made a theatre comeback from alcoholism in the early 1990s, playing Don Quichotte in the musical The Man of la Mancha. His most famous songs include Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder (Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire), We zullen doorgaan (We will go on), and Laat me (Leave me be). His website describes Shaffy as ‘a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra’.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neuilly sur Seine, France
Birthday: August 29, 1933
Deathday: December 01, 2009
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Gender: Male
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De nietsnut
Overview: For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1994-02-01
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Schermerhoorn
Overview: A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the attic and plays in an old bunker in the dunes.
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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All Rebels
Overview: All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz music, unconventional clothing, long hair, smoking marihuana, uninhibited dancing and free love.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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Nitwits
Overview: Comedy about actor Joel Palsma who struggles through life working in commercials and small roles in plays and also has a complicated love life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1987-08-20
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Confessions of Loving Couples
Overview: Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1967-02-16
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Anna, Child of the Daffodils
Overview: The story of a young woman with mental problems told in a non-chronological fashion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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The Whipping Cream Hero
Overview: In this debut comedy by director Erik Terpstra, an ordinary middle-class gentleman picks up a colorful but degenerate and no-good beatnik/hippie hitchhiker and inexplicably invites him home to meet the wife and kids. The resulting conflicts between the hitchhiker, who respects no rules or boundaries, and the family, provide the substance for most of the humor in this sincere but not especially well-thought-out film. Reviewers who saw the film at the 1967 Mannheim Film Festival expressed the opinion that it was an unformed work by a promising talent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1967-09-14
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Precious
Overview: A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-24
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The Good Hope
Overview: Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1986-08-07
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The Manneken Pis Case
Overview: Kamiel steals the famous Brussels statue of Manneken Pis to impress his girlfriend Denise, the daughter of the man who is supposed to guard it. The Belgians, however, wrongly accuse the Dutch of having stolen their statue and hit back by stealing the statue of Hansje Brink.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1960-09-30
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Cha Cha
Overview: Bank robber Herman Brood becomes a rock and roll star with the help of Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Nachtvlinder
Overview: King Olaf of Haland is an albino who lives in a gloomy castle. Abraham Mogèn, an alchemist, wants to aid the king. But on his way to the castle he is murdered by the highwayman Wogram and his servant Onorg. Wogram disguises himself as the alchemist and wins the favor of the king.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-09-02
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